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AMD Zacate E-350

What is not working:
Video decoding on GPU with libvba stuff.
[ 299.222] (II) fglrx(0): UVD feature is enabled(II) fglrx(0)

So for now, there is not accelaration of x264 and so on. No 1080p Videos are running fine.

I started this thread in order to get some information from other guys having the very same hardware. I will use this thread in order to get running what is possible concerning graphics video acceleration.

In order to avoid 100% xorg load after some hours having it running with fglrx 11.2, I installed ati driver from git through xorg-edgers.

Chip is detected and 1920x1080 is running - but: The screen size is not correct, taskbar at bottom and top are missing ;-). Monitor is not adjustable because of digital hdmi connection. I use 1280x800 for now.

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In order to avoid 100% xorg load after some hours having it running with fglrx 11.2, I installed ati driver from git through xorg-edgers.

Chip is detected and 1920x1080 is running - but: The screen size is not correct, taskbar at bottom and top are missing ;-). Monitor is not adjustable because of digital hdmi connection. I use 1280x800 for now.

Sounds like underscan/overscan issues. X is compensating for what it believe is a TV. Try:

Code:

xrandr --output HDMI-0 --set underscan off

Or check if you can set your monitor's aspect ratio to "Original" or "No scan" or something like that.

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It is an E35M1-M PRO with Sata6G, USB 3.0 and AMD E-350 with integrated Radeon 6310 graphics.

I tried it getting to work with xorg-edgers ppa and a recent 2.6.38 kernel from the mainline ppa. KMS is totally screwed up, if enabled I will just get a distorted grey boxing image in the lower left, no image or content can be recogniced.

If running an xserver console switching is not possible anymore, if i do it i just get a blank screen - backswitching is not possible.

First I installed fglrx version 11.2, the problem here was, that x consumed 100% load after screensaver was run or alternatively (as i ran it overnight) after it went idling. It was not possible to kill xserver process.

For now I am just running plain text console with disabled KMS.

The next steps to do are:
- Fill a bug against KMS and my hardware, I got some kernel messages.
- Get KMS and with it powersaving/3D Accelaration working
- Develop vdpau interface for radeon cards and get 1080p videos working (just kidding :-()

The only solution for now is: Buying an nvidia G210 graphics card - but i do not want to do this. 18 Watt TDP with and 31 Watt extra nvidia, this is no good.

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h264 and VC1 stuff is accelerated fine. You have to remember this CPU is too slow to display 720p and 1080p files alone without vaapi. So Flash Movies on youtube, etc. are not fine, till the flash people also implement vaapi support. There is vaapi support for gnash, but I did not test this.

But flash acceleration is the only thing missing for me. There was a minor bug, when gnome-screensaver was triggered and the monitor went off, this would make Xorg process going zombie:-).

I just remove gnome-screensaver, will see tomorrow if everything survived the night.